The changing face of welfare : consequences and outcomes from a citizenship perspective / [edited by] Jrgen Goul Andersen ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goul Andersen, Jrgen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--Europe.

Welfare state.

Public welfare--Europe.

Public welfare.

Europe--Social policy.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe. The book applies a dynamic and change oriented perspective to shed light on policy changes that are often poorly understood in the welfare literature, and contributes to a further development of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding social change. Using citizenship as a focus, several dimensions of change are analysed simultaneously: changes in the discipline of social policy itself; the changing character of social problems; changes in social policy and citizenship; and the emergence of new forms of social integration. The book also speculates on how different dimensions of change are interlinked.

Contents:

Fifteen

Conclusion: policy change, welfare regimes and active citizenshipIndex.

Seven

Citizenship and the activation of social protection: a comparative approachEight

The active society and activation policy: ideologies, contexts and effects; Nine

Individualising citizenship; Ten

Gender equality, citizenship and welfare state restructuring; Eleven

New forms of citizenship and social integration in European societies; Twelve

The outcomes of early retirement in Nordic countries; Thirteen

Early exit from the labour market, social exclusion and marginalisation in the Uk; Fourteen

The emergence of social movements by social security claimants.

Cover; The Changing Face Of Welfare

Consequences and outcomes from a citizenship perspective; Contents; List of tables and figures; Preface; Glossary; Notes on contributors; One

'Active' citizenship: the new face of welfare; Two

The goals of social policy: context and change; Three

Which way for the European social model: minimum standards or social quality?; Four

The advent of a flexible life course and the reconfigurations of welfare; Five

Citizenship, unemployment and welfare policy; Six

Paradoxes of democracy: the dialectic of inclusion and exclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jan 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611159566

9781447303701

1447303709

9781281159564

1281159565

9781847421401

1847421407

OCLC:

476249548